Rescuer becomes Internet sensation

CLEVELAND – The Internet exploded with virtual cheers Tuesday for the colorful U.S. dishwasher who helped three young women flee a decade in captivity.

Videos of Charles Ramsey telling reporters how he helped Amanda Berry escape went viral on YouTube, as did a not-safe-for-work recording of his salty 911 call to police who subsequently found two other kidnap victims.

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms,” Ramsey told local ABC affiliate WEWS television outside the crime scene, a nondescript two-story house at 2207 Seymour Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

On Twitter, Ramsey’s name trended all day Tuesday alongside the likes of the Dalai Lama, who spoke to U.S. college students, and Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who was injured on the election trail.

“Way to go Charles Ramsey — we’ll be in touch,” tweeted McDonald’s, the fast food chain, whose Big Mac he was eating when he heard Berry’s cries for help from across the way.